People always ask me what's the inspiration behind my music and I always answer - People and romance.
People and their stories; stories of love and old-fashioned romance. Sometimes being in love can be so painful but the pain can be good too and it's helped me write a lot of songs this way.
I like writing old-fashioned love songs, partly because that's what I hear inside, and partly to fill a big hole in my current music collection. I love old romantic jazz music and sitting down by the fire watching a musical with Fred Astaire or an old black and white with Marlene Dietrich.
A song that I wrote recently called Strawberry Icecream Champagne is an old-fashioned love song inspired by Cole Porter and Natalie Wood. It's a song about all the delicious feelings you get when you're with that special person, you go to a theatre show and then you might go for a boat ride down the moonlit river. For me music is all about that magic, in taking you away to a special place where you can do anything.
Tuan x
